Pinterest Suspends Pro-Life Organization, Places It on Porn 'Blocklist' - DAILY SIGNAL CHARISMA NEWS

Alison Centofante (right) called out Pinterest for its biased suspension of pro-life accounts. (Facebook/Alison Centofante)

Pinterest Suspends Pro-Life Organization, Places It on Porn 'Blocklist'

4:00PM EDT 6/20/2019 DAILY SIGNAL  CHARISMA NEWS

Pinterest has suspended the account of pro-life group Live Action, saying it violates the social media company's policies on "misinformation."

Alison Centofante, director of external affairs for Live Action, tweeted about the incident last week as the organization appealed Pinterest's decision.

"LiveAction.org" is the only pro-life website included on Pinterest's list of banned websites, Centofante said in a tweet.

The nonprofit educates on, reports on and investigates the abortion industry, according to its webpage, and seeks to inspire others in the pro-life movement.

Get Spirit-filled content delivered right to your inbox! Click here to subscribe to our newsletter.

Project Veritas, an undercover investigative journalism nonprofit, received and published information from Pinterest employee Eric Cochran, revealing the social media platform added Live Action's website to a list of sites blocked for pornographic content.

The whistleblower has since lost his job at Pinterest and was interviewed Wednesday on Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight about his decision to speak out.

"I saw a big tech company saying quietly behind closed doors that they believe Live Action shouldn't have a platform to speak. ... I want them to have to say this explicitly," Cochran told host Tucker Carlson.

Lila Rose, founder of Live Action, told Twitter followers that although the organization initially was put on Pinterest's pornography blocklist, Pinterest later changed its story, calling Live Action's content "inaccurate."

Pinterest is a social media website that allows users to share or "pin" photos, recipes, videos and other content they collect to their account. When Pinterest bans a website, users are blocked from creating or sharing any content that links back to that page.

"What exactly is Pinterest attempting to block?" Centofante said in a tweet. "Inspirational messages to pregnant mothers, ultrasound images showing the science of prenatal development, and images saying women deserve better than abortion industry leader Planned Parenthood."

Centofante later tweeted an update that Pinterest had "doubled down" in response to Live Action's appeal.

Rose posted Pinterest's decision to permanently suspend Live Action's account due to its "harmful misinformation," including "medical information and conspiracies that turn individuals and facilities into targets for harassment and violence."

Centofante pointed out that Planned Parenthood was not included on Pinterest's list of banned sites, although the organization has profited from selling baby body parts, has been accused of mistreating pregnant women and has clinics that have violated health codes with unsanitary equipment and unsafe practices.

Live Action included a thread on Twitter about "actually dangerous" content Pinterest allows, including do-it-yourself, at-home abortions.

"Pinterest has targeted Live Action, I believe, because our message is so effective at educating millions about the humanity of the preborn child and the injustice of abortion," Rose said in a press release, adding:

Pinterest says that their mission is to "help empower people to discover things that they love," but despite the fact that millions of people love babies and the pro-life cause, they are secretly censoring our life-affirming messages. Pinterest users deserve to know the truth and our messages deserve to be treated fairly.

Pro-life activists rallied outside Pinterest headquarters in San Francisco in response to what they called censorship.

Pinterest did not respond to The Daily Signal's multiple requests for comment. 

This article originally appeared at The Daily Signal.

Get Spirit-filled content delivered right to your inbox! Click here to subscribe to our newsletter.

Join us on our podcast each weekday for an interesting story, well told, from Charisma News. Listen at charismapodcastnetwork.com.

Great Resources to help you excel in 2019! #1 John Eckhardt's "Prayers That..." 6-Book Bundle. Prayer helps you overcome anything life throws at you. Get a FREE Bonus with this bundle. #2 Learn to walk in the fullness of your purpose and destiny by living each day with Holy Spirit. Buy a set of Life in the Spirit, get a second set FREE.

Share

Tweet

Email

More

Charisma Magazine

May 2019

• Subscribe
• Buy This Issue
• Preview
• Learn More

See an error in this article? Send us a correction

Related topics: Abortion | Pornography | Social Media

Once Again, Pro-Life Women Have Been Silenced - KATRINA TRINKO/DAILY SIGNAL CHARISMA NEWS

(Reuters photo)

Once Again, Pro-Life Women Have Been Silenced

1/20/2017 KATRINA TRINKO/DAILY SIGNAL  CHARISMA NEWS

It's 2017, and women are still being silenced.

The twist is that it's now by other women.

The Women's March on Washington, scheduled to occur the day after President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, had listed a pro-life group, New Wave Feminists, as a partner organization. After The Atlantic highlighted the group's participation as a partner in the march, the Women's March took the group off the list, saying its inclusion had been an "error."

"The protest is pro-choice, and that has been our stance from Day One," the Women's March said in a statement. "We want to assure all of our partners, as well as our participants, that we are pro-choice as clearly stated in our Unity Principles. We look forward to marching on behalf of individuals who share the view that women deserve the right to make their own reproductive choices."

Never mind that the event's organizers had told The Daily Signal's Kelsey Harkness in December that pro-lifers were welcome to participate in the Women's March. "The message is not whether a person is pro-life or pro-choice," said march organizer Tamika Mallory at the time.

It wasn't entirely surprising they caved. Since Mallory spoke to The Daily Signal, Planned Parenthood has become a partner. And after The Atlantic published its article about the New Wave Feminists' inclusion, liberal feminists tweeted their dismay.

The exact mission of the Women's March, which started with Hawaii grandmother Teresa Shook's Facebook comment on election night that "I think we should march," has been somewhat nebulous from its inception.

"What sparked the need for this movement was the rhetoric of the campaign was so demeaning to women," Shook told ABC's Good Morning America in an interview. "I just felt women needed to stand up and say, 'Here we are, hear our voice, we're strong, we're empowered, and we're not going away.'"

But regardless of the mission the event organizers finally settled upon (assuming they did settle on one—the Women's March is now in trouble with liberal feminists for removing a statement on rights for sex workers), it shouldn't be called the Women's March if it isn't meant to be inclusive for all women.

As much as the left (and some of its cheerleaders in the media) loves to portray women as a unified bloc of pink-wearing Planned Parenthood cheerleaders who cherish no political right as much as they do the right to abortion, the political reality is far more complicated.

Four out of 10 women in America think abortion should be "illegal in all/most cases," according to a poll released last year by the Pew Research Center. And two-thirds of women voters support legislation that would ban abortions after 20 weeks except if the mother's life is in danger or in cases of rape and incest, according to a November poll commissioned by the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life organization.

In other words, the pro-choice position of the "Women's March" is excluding a lot of American women.

And unfortunately, that's all too common. In our political discourse, it's regularly assumed that all women agree with the Lena Dunhams of the world.

It doesn't matter how many women passionately believe both female and male unborn children deserve the right to life, despite being small and dependent. It doesn't matter how many women think all women deserve something better than the kind of treatment delivered by Dr. Kermit Gosnell, under whose care a woman undergoing a second-trimester abortion died.

It doesn't matter how many women think what can best help a woman facing an unexpected pregnancy is financial support and personal care, the kind delivered by pregnancy centers across the country—not a push that she end the life of her child.

Or at least that doesn't matter to the liberal feminists who constantly demand pro-life women be excluded.

It's time the left accept that women have a diversity of views on many issues, including abortion.

And if liberal feminists are sincere about women's rights, they'll realize that means all women, not just those they agree with, deserve a seat at the table (or a place in the march) to represent their views. 

Katrina Trinko is managing editor of The Daily Signal and a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors.

This article was originally published at DailySignal.com. Used with permission.

Leaders are readers! Subscribe now and get 3 magazines for the price of 1. Get Ministry Today, Charisma and SpiritLed Woman all for $24. YES - Sign me up!

3 Reasons Why you should read Life in the Spirit. 1) Get to know the Holy Spirit. 2) Learn to enter God's presence 3) Hear God's voice clearly! Click Here to draw closer to God!